Football News
At I-League 2010-11, India - Round VI

Dempo SC dw Chirag United SC 1-1

Goal Scored - Clifton Gonsalves (DSC) 45+' and Josimar da Silva Martins (CU) 89'
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Mohun Bagan bt Mumbai FC 2-0

Goal Scored - Muritala Ali (MB) 45+', Asim Biswas (MB) 79'
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ONGC, Mumbai dw Churchill Brothers SC 1-1

Goal Scored - N.D.Opara (ONGC) 20' and Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 45+'
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AIFF XI bt HAL, Bangalore 2-1

Goal Scored - Malsawmfela (AIFF) 33', Bikramjit Singh (AIFF) 53' and R.C.Prakash (HAL) 88' P
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Salgaocar SC l Pune FC 0-1

Goal Scored - Selwyn Fernandes (PFC) 32'
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East Bengal bt Air India FC 6-1

Goal Scored - Soumik Dey (EB) 10', Robin Sigh (EB) 33', Tolgay Ozbey (EB) 42' and 49', Mehtab Hussain (EB) 90+', Ravinder Singh (EB) 90+' and Eric (AI) 55'
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JCT Mills FC bt Viva Kerala 1-0

Goal Scored - Maninder Singh (JCT) 49'

East Bengal continued with their impressive winning run and register their sixth win on the trot in dominating fashion ... Pune FC and JCT scored their first win in the I-League 2010-11 season in identical margin ... Pune FC scored away win over in-form Salgaocar.

Young u19 AIFF XI scored back to back victories ... This week they defeated HAL side and moved out from bottom 3 ... Mohun Bagan scored comfortable win over Mumbai side scoring one goal each in both halfs ... ONGC hold mighty Churchill Brothers ... Chirag United scored late equalizer through Josimar da Silva Martins to hold Dempo in well contested match.

Football News
At 2011 AFC Asian Cup, Doha, Qatar

Yesterday final 23-member squad declared, which is captained by Bhaichung Bhutia, for the Asian Cup football tournament.


Striker Mohammed Rafi missed the Asian Cup bus with midfielder James Lukram, defender N Mohanraj, striker Baljit Sahni and midfielder Jagpreet Singh ... Other hand left back Sameer Naik, goalkeeper Arindam Bhattacharya and winger Anthony Pereira failed to get selected due to injuries.

We r in toughest draw with Asia's top 6 teams ... If we manages draw with anyone will be huge achievement.

Group C - South Korea, India, Australia and Bahrain

Indian Team
Goalkeepers - Subrata Pal, Subhasish Roy Choudhury, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
Defenders - Surkumar Singh, Gouramangi Singh, Anwar, Mahesh Gawli, Syed Rahim Nabi, Deepak Mondal, N S Manju, Rakesh Masih, Govin Singh
Midfielders - Steven Dias, N P Pradeep, Climax Lawrence, Clifford Miranda, Renedy Singh, Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Baldeep Singh
Strikers - Bhaichung Bhutia (Capt), Sunil Chhetri, Abhishek Yadav, Sushil Kumar Singh

Tennis News

Still we r searching for a men's player who remian in top-100 in year-end ATP singles ranking ... But overall consistent performance from Buji, which giving us hope for 2011 season ... Also good to see comeback by Karan after his career threatening injury ... Yuki didn't perform as per our expectations but definetly in line to give more promising results in 2011.


In doubles we all r egarly waiting for performance of Lee and Hesh after reunion on tour for early 2011 season ... Hopefully with some good results they decide to continue until 2012 London Olympics ... Rohan and Aisam will be looking to win their first grand slam in 2011.


But on women section our picture doesn't look good ... Only Sania is in top -500 singles and top-450 in doubles ranking and frankly nobody look that promising to crack in top-250 in 2011.

2010 Year-end ATP Singles Ranking (top 10)

108 Devvarman Somdev (IND) 526
332 Rastogi Karan (IND) 130
386 Vardhan Vishnu (IND) 105
486 Amritraj Prakash (IND) 66
505 Bhambri Yuki (IND) 60
536 Gajjar Rohan (IND) 49
545 Virali-Murugesan Ranjeet (IND) 48
557 Roy Rupesh (IND) 45
626 Bopanna Rohan (IND) 32
678 Prashanth N Vijay Sundar (IND) 25


2010 Year-end ATP Doubles Rankings (top 10)

5 Paes Leander (IND) 5,150
6 Bhupathi Mahesh (IND) 5,085
16 Bopanna Rohan (IND) 3,370
139 Mankad Harsh (IND) 580 (Retd)
143 Raja Purav (IND) 551
212 Devvarman Somdev (IND) 336
261 Amritraj Prakash (IND) 247
295 Vardhan Vishnu (IND) 208
309 Sharan, Divij (IND) 200
415 Singh Ashutosh (IND) 132
466 Bhambri Yuki (IND) 108


2010 Year-end WTA Singles Rankings (top 5)

141 Mirza Sania (IND) 465
569 Venkatesha Poojashree (IND) 49
576 Chakravarthi Rushmi (IND) 45
699 Uberoi Shikha (IND) 30
858 Burman Shivika (IND) 16


2010 Year-end WTA Doubles Rankings (top 5)

60 Mirza Sania (IND) 1407
459 Chakravarthi Rushmi (IND) 95
473 Uberoi Shikha (IND) 88
491 Venkatesha Poojashree (IND) 81
635 Burman Shivika (IND) 47

Badminton News

Kashyap becomes our top men's shuttler and Ajay become #2 behind him ... Both showed more consistent performance from others to deserve to be 1 and 2 ... Guru was giving very good results in first half of 2010 to breaking into top-50 but last few months he struggled ... Hopefully he will be making more promising performance in 2011.


In ladies Saina IS our only player, who can compete in top field ... But PV Sindhu is giving us hope to join Saina in next couple of years.


2010 Year-end BWF Mens' World Singles Ranking (from top 100)

24 P. Kashyap (IND) 35066.9
34 Ajay Jayaram (IND) 31440 (PB)
37 Chetan Anand (IND) 30080.1737
42 Anand Pawar (IND) 28460
48 Arvind Bhat (IND) 27249.0714
57 RMV Gurusai Datt (IND) 23574.4
88 Aditya Elango Abdul Raheem (IND) 16320


2010 Year-end BWF Womens' World Singles Ranking (top 5)

4 Saina Nehwal (IND) 63811.2637
80 Aditi Mutatkar (IND) 18601.9822
103 Trupti Murgunde (IND) 13833.8
123 Sayali Gokhale (IND) 12370.7
150 PV Sindhu (IND) 9620

Football News
At I-League 2010-11, India - Round V

JCT Mills FC, Phagwara l Mohun Bagan 0-1

Goal Scored - Manish Maithani (MB) 67'
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Churchill Brothers SC dw Viva Kerala 1-1

Goal Scored - Felix Chimaokwu (VK) 15' and Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 90+' P
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Chirag United SC bt HAL Bangalore 1-0

Goal Scored - Jerry Zirsanga (CU) 45+'
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ONGC, Mumbai dw Pune FC 1-1

Goal Scored - Mandjou Keita (ONGC) 88' and N.D.Opara (PFC) 28'
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East Bengal bt Salgaocar SC 1-0

Goal Scored - Tolgay Ozbey (EB) 60'
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Dempo SC bt Mumbai FC 1-0

Goal Scored - Roberto Mendes Silva (DSC) 58'
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AIFF XI bt Air India FC 2-1

Goal Scored - Shilton D'Silva (AIFF) 32', Jagtar Singh (AIFF) 73' and Samson Singh (AI) 90+

Terrific result for young Indian u-19 side to score their first win of I-League ... In top 2 teams match East Bengal side scored their 5th win on a row to leading standing alone ... Dempo and Chirag also scored wins ... Odafe saved Churchill from defeat against Viva converting penalty in dying moments ... ONGC also shared a point with Pune FC side ... Pune FC is struggling as their main striker Edmar Figueira struggle to find the net.

Tennis News
At $75K Dubai ITF Womens Tournament, UAE

[F] Sania Mirz (IND,165) bt (5) Bojana Jovanovski (SRB,81) 46 63 60

Excellent result for Sania ... So she manged to win her first singles title of 2010 in 50th week and that is also is style ... Ending season 2010 on good note giving us high hope for season 2011 ... She will definetely back in top-75 if she remain injury free in next few months ... Before this final Sania lost 2 matches to Bojana Jovanovski in 2010 ... She lifted title beating #40 and #80 ranked players.

I like the way she fought back in the final ... After losing first set she was a break down in second but then she won 12 games of next 14 games they played ... In that she won last 7 games losing only 9 points ... :notworthy: Simply incredible performance!!!

Chess News
At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Semi Final
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) ½-½ Yifan Hou (CHN,2591) ½-1½

Same old story repeated again and Humpy lost in semis ... Today Humpy needed victory after yesterday's loss but Hou hold her playing with Blacks after 45 moves.

Tennis News
At $75K Dubai ITF Womens Tournament, UAE

[SF] Sania Mirz (IND,165) bt (8) Evgeniya Rodina (RUS,113) 63 46 64

[F] Sania Mirz (IND,165) vs (5) Bojana Jovanovski (SRB,81)

Doubles
[F] (1) Sania Mirz (IND)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) l (2) Julia Goerges (GER)/ Petra Martic (CRO) 46 67(7)

Sania started well and after winning first set she was leading 4-2 in second but from here again old Sania showed up ... She lost next 4 games to lose second set ... In third set both players were regularly breaking opponent's service games ... But crucial hold of service game in third set came when Sania was up with break 4-3 ... After that both players hold their serves and win for Sania ... Sania must be tired after so many matches ... In the evening she played doubles final and tomorrow also she is in singles final.

Though she struggled from mid second set still Sania played gutsy game to finished match in decider after trading multiple breaks ... Sania and Uhlirova lost doubles final in close match against 2nd seed Goerges and Martic, so chance of double crown is over ... I m really hoping Sania lift singles title beating this 19 yrs old Serbian.

Football News
At I-League 2010-11, India - Round IV

Mumbai FC l Churchill Brothers 1-5

Goal Scored - Bineesh Balan (MFC) 40' and Noel Wilson (CB) 12', Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 18'P, 28', 66' and 90+'
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Salgaocar SC bt AIFF XI 5-0

Goal Scored - Yusif Yakubu (SSC) 7'and 18', Ryuji Sueoka (SSC) 12' and 34', Ekene Ikenwa (SSC)
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Pune FC dw Chirag United 1-1

Goal Scored - Arata Izumi (PFC) 58' and Elijah Junior (CU) 45'
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Viva Kerala dw HAL, Banglore 1-1

Goal Scored - Anil Kumar (VK) 50' and J.Murali (HAL) 48' P
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JCT Mills, Phagwara l East Bengal 0-1

Goal Scored - Uga Okpara (EB) 36'
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Air India dw ONGC, Mumbai 0-0

East Bengal scored their 4th win a row to lead standing table ... Other match Mumbai sided ended in goalless draw.

Churchill crushed young Mumbai FC side, Odafe scored 4 goals in that ... Salgaocar continued with their good run and handed another one-sided defeat to u-19 Indian side ... Other hand Pune FC still searching for their first win of the season ... HAL managed to hold Viva.

Chess News
At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Semi Final
Yifan Hou (CHN,2591) 1-0 GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600)

Humpy fought hard against Yifan Hou but lost in 78 mins with Blacks in first game ... Hou kept pressure on Humpy from the start, now Humpy having big challenge of winning second game.

Tennis News
At $75K Dubai ITF Womens Tournament, UAE

[QF] Sania Mirz (IND,165) bt (1) Julia Goerges (GER,40) 61 76(8)

[SF] Sania Mirz (IND,165) vs (8) Evgeniya Rodina (RUS,113)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Sania Mirz (IND)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) bt Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA)/ Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) 26 75 10-5

[F] (1) Sania Mirz (IND)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) vs (2) Julia Goerges (GER)/ Petra Martic (CRO)

Terrific result!!! This was really unexpected pleasent win by Sania ... Really good year-end gift of win over top-40 player to find which level she is playing ... This was her first win of the year over top 50 player ... Go Sania, now try to win title.

Next she is facing Russian girl Evgeniya Rodina for place in the final ... In doubles also she pulled tight win with her partner over American pair to moved into the final.

Badminton News

After Super Series title win at Hong Kong Saina managed to regain #2 position, so she will be end up on #2 in world ranking behind Xin Wang.

These r Top 10 2010 year-end BWF ranking for Women
1 Xin Wang (CHN) 71192.4017 pts (10 tournaments)
2 Saina Nehwal (IND) 68811.2637 pts (11 tournaments)
3 Shixian Wang (CHN) 67176.4 pts (10 tournaments)
4 Yihan Wang (CHN) 65308.9106 pts (10 tournaments)
5 Tine Baun (DEN) 60400.0982 pts (10 tournaments)
6 Jiang Yanjiao (CHN) 52321.1 pts (8 tournaments)
7 Juliane Schenk (GER) 51029.8657 pts (19 tournaments)
8 Youn Joo Bae (KOR) 49350.708 pts (15 tournaments)
9 Hongyan Pi (FRA) 48661.9158 pts (14 tournaments)
10 Pui Yin Yip (HKG) 47274.382 pts (14 tournaments)

Snooker News
At IBSF World Snooker Championship 2010, Damascus, Syria

Men - Final
Pankaj Advani (IND) l Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA) 7-10 (37-67, 71-47, 69-35, 138-0, 12-85, 15-68, 13-63, 27-68, 57-56, 61-15, 15-71, 35-75, 32-58, 71-25, 62-33, 0-130, 8-92)

Pankaj lost in closely fought final against Thai Dechawat Poomjaeng ... So this year Pankaj failed to lift any IBSF World title.

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 7 - Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ Michael Adams
David Howell ½-½ Luke McShane
Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Nigel Short

Anand and Kramnik played cracking game but that ended in a draw in 39 moves ... Howell also hold in-form McShane ... Carlsen take full advantage of this situation and defeated Nigel Short in 40 moves to win this London Chess Classic ... Anand and McShane finished on joint second position ... This win also helped Carlsen to secured yearend WR #1 position.

Final standings
Nr Name Rating Fed Score
1 Carlsen Magnus 2802 NOR 13
2 Anand Viswanathan 2804 IND 11
3 McShane Luke J 2645 ENG 11
4 Nakamura Hikaru 2741 USA 10
5 Kramnik Vladimir 2791 RUS 10
6 Adams Michael 2723 ENG 8
7 Howell David W L 2611 ENG 4
8 Short Nigel D 2680 ENG 2
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Quarter Final
WGM Lufei Ruan (CHN,2480) ½-½ IM Dronavalli Harika (UKR,2462) 2½-1½

Semi Final
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) vs Yifan Hou (CHN,2591)

Harika lost first Rapid match playing with Whites and then Lufei Ruan managed draw in second Rapid match playing with Whites ... So in semis Humpy is with 3 Chinese girls.

Humpy having tough semi-final against highest rated Chinese player Yifan Hou.

Tennis News
At $75K Dubai ITF Womens Tournament, UAE

[R2] Sania Mirz (IND,165) bt Korina Perkovic (GER,662) 61 62

[QF] Sania Mirz (IND,165) vs (1) Julia Goerges (GER,40)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Sania Mirz (IND)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) bt Nina Bratchikova (RUS)/ Emma Laine (FIN) 63 64

[SF] (1) Sania Mirz (IND)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) vs Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA)/ Megan Moulton-Levy (USA)

So expected easy victory for Sania against German qualifier but next match is real test against WR #40 German player ... In doubles also she moved into semis with straight sets victory.

Snooker News
At IBSF World Snooker Championship 2010, Damascus, Syria

Men - Semi Final
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Rodney Goggins (IRL) 7-3 (53-41, 77-44, 114-8, 52-44, 32-81, 19-61, 60-18, 22-69, 89-1, 59-8)

[F] Pankaj Advani (IND) vs Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA)

Pankaj entered into the final with comfortable win over Irishman Rodney Goggins ... In the final he is facing Thai Dechawat Poomjaeng.

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 6 - Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Vladimir Kramnik ½-½ Magnus Carlsen
Nigel Short ½-½ David Howell
Luke McShane ½-½ Hikaru Nakamura
Michael Adams ½-½ Viswanathan Anand

So now after this 50 moves draw Anand need to depend upon other results to see his position on standing ... All other matches ended in draw ... Carlsen managed draw in dogfight against Vlad after 68 moves ... So now standing remained same as Anand, Carlsen and McShane sharing top position but Carlsen is on top position as he played 4 matches with Blacks.

In the final round now advantage is to Carlsen, who is facing out of form Nigel Short ... Other hand Anand is facing Kramnik and McShane is facing David Howell.
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Quarter Final
WGM Wenjun Ju (CHN,2524) ½-½ GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) ½-1½
WGM Lufei Ruan (CHN,2480) ½-½ IM Dronavalli Harika (UKR,2462) 1-1

Humpy hold Ju challenge to win her match to moved in semis but Harika had another draw ... That means she is in another long match.

Tennis News
At $75K Dubai ITF Womens Tournament, UAE

[R1] Sania Mirz (IND,165) bt (6) Ksenia Pervak (RUS,98) 62 63

[R2] Sania Mirz (IND,165) vs Korina Perkovic (GER,662)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Sania Mirz (IND)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) vs Nina Bratchikova (RUS)/ Emma Laine (FIN)

Very dominating win by Sania over top-100 Russian Ksenia Pervak to moved into next round ... She is facing German qualifier in second round.

Snooker News
At IBSF World Snooker Championship 2010, Damascus, Syria

Knock-Out Stage - Men
[QF] Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Moh Keen Hoo (MAL) 6-1 (70-32, 69-24, 60-2, 63-77, 68-8, 67-45, 124-0)

[SF] Pankaj Advani (IND) vs Rodney Goggins (IRL)

Knock-Out Stage - Women
[SF] Vidya Pillai (IND) l Ng On Yee (HKG) 0-4 (25-54, 7-67, 19-59, 41-84)

Disappointing one-sided loss to Vidya but other hand Pankaj scored authorative victory over Malaysian opponent and will face Irish player in semis.

Chess News
At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Quarter Final
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) 1-0 WGM Wenjun Ju (CHN,2524)
IM Dronavalli Harika (UKR,2462) ½-½ WGM Lufei Ruan (CHN,2480)

Both played with Whites in which Humpy scored win and Harika managed draw with their respective Chinese opponents.

Tennis News
At $75K Dubai ITF Womens Tournament, UAE

[R1] Sania Mirz (IND,165) vs (6) Ksenia Pervak (RUS,98)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirz (IND)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) bt Elena Chalova (RUS)/ Ksenia Palkina (KGZ) 76(5) 64

Draw is out for Dubai ITF tournament ... Sania is facing top-100 and seeded Russian Pervak in first round.

In doubles top-seed pair had tough outing in their first round match.

Snooker News
At IBSF World Snooker Championship 2010, Damascus, Syria

Knock-Out Stage - Men
[R1] Pankaj Advani (IND) bye
[R2] Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Mohd. Al Joaker (UAE) 5-4 (66(66)-65, 119(53)-16, 05-80, 16-83(53), 47-57, 66-39, 68-54, 50-66, 72-26)
[R3] Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Mohd. Rais Sen Zahi (AFG) 5-2 (60-40, 110(109)-15, 114(114)-00, 73-69, 00-73, 41-68, 68-21)

[QF] Pankaj Advani (IND) vs Moh Keen Hoo (MAL)

Knock-Out Stage - Women
[R1] Anuja Chandra (IND) bt Inese Lukashevska (LAT) 4-0 (59-48, 67-21, 81-39, 48-27)
[R1] Vidya Pillai (IND) bt Kathy Parashis (AUS) 4-2 (48-04, 73-38, 59-27, 42-70, 46(45)-81, 66-03)
[R1] Chitra Magimairaj (IND) bt Irina Gorbataya (RUS) 4-0 (92-23, 66-48, 74-18, 67-27)
[R1] R. Uma Devi (IND) l Hannah Jones (ENG) 0-4 (29-62(40), 49-56, 36-52, 36-64)

[QF] Anuja Chandra (IND) l Ng On Yee (HKG) 3-4 (07-65, 54-49, 06-77, 102(52)-19, 49-54, 75-40, 40-53)
[QF] Vidya Pillai (IND) bt Chitra Magimairaj (IND) 4-0 (63-43, 73-02, 75-05, 60-40)

[SF] Vidya Pillai (IND) vs Ng On Yee (HKG)

Pankaj and Yasin Merchant participated in men event ... Yasin failed to qualify for knock-out stage ... But other hand Pankaj won all his matches in Group E and that recieved him seeding with first round bye.

In second round he had tough challenge from Joaker, who stretched him to the fullest ... In round three he sored comfortable win against Afgani opponent ... In quarter he is facing Malaysian.

In women event our four women in knockout stage ... Uma Devi lost in first round ... Anuja lost close match against Hong Kong player in quarters ... Chitra couldn't match Vidya ... Now in semis Vidya is facing Ng On Yee.

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 5 - Sunday, December 12, 2010
Michael Adams ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Luke McShane
Hikaru Nakamura 1-0 Nigel Short
David Howell 0-1 Magnus Carlsen

After 2 consecutive wins Anand decided to step back and agreed for early draw after 41 moves with McShane before only a day break in this tournament.

Carlsen joined the leaders with his 3rd win ... In this tournament Carlsen having 3 wins and 2 losses ... Kramnik will be facing Carlsen and Anand is last 2 rounds ... So next round Anand's match against Michael Adams is important for his title hope ... In last round Carlsen facing totally out of form Nigel Short.
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Round 3
IM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR,2462) 0-1 IM Dronavalli Harika (IND,2525) 3-4

Quarter Final
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) vs WGM Wenjun Ju (CHN,2524)
IM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR,2462) vs WGM Lufei Ruan (CHN,2480)

In tie-break Harika started well beating Muzychuk with Whites but lost next game playing with Blacks ... In Blitz Harika had bad start losing her game with Whites but she came back strongly beating Muzychuk with Blacks ... Harika played with Blacks in sudden-death game to won game and match, final score was 4-3.

So with that she joined Humpy in quarter-final of 2010 Women's World Chess Championship.

Here r comments about suddendeath game from chessbase -
The armageddon was also not your usual fare, and featured five minutes for white, and four for black, with a draw favoring black. So far so normal, but if the games should reach 60 moves, both players would then receive a 3-second increment per move thereafter. Since no one actually keeps track of the number of moves played in blitz game, this is only possible with electronic boards and clocks. Harika won the draw and chose black, but things went bad in an Italian, and she soon found herself in growing trouble. Both players were very tense, and despite being winning, Mariya knew that there was no room for error and absolutely had to win. Indecision grew and the miracle for Harika happened: Muzychuk overstepped her time and lost.

Badminton News
At $250K Hong Kong Open Super Series 2010, Wanchai

SAINA DID IT!!! WON HONG KONG SUPER SERIES BEATING WANG!!!

Singles Final
(2) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt (3) Shixian Wang (CHN,5) 15-21 21-16 21-17

Huge victory for her ... Saina extended her 100% finals record to 5 in year 2010 ... Shixian was in good form, last week also she reached final of Super Series tournament after winning Asian Games badminton gold ... But today Saina had different plan and with this win Saina broke big mind barrier of beating Wangs and that's also in title match ... This is Saina's first win over Wang and also 3rd Super Series title of year 2010 ... She won big cheque of $19,750.

Very close match ... Both played very high quality game ... Impressed with Saina the way she take this challenge, where with Chinese opponent she was againsr most of the vocal crowd and little biased officials.

Saina was struggling in the first game ... Shixian take control of the game from 15-13 to won it ... But from second game Saina showed improvement in her game and matched shot by shot with Shixian ... Played awesome/ amazing drop shots, cross courts, half smashes, smashes and down the line ... In last 2 games she controlled from the start and Shixian was doing caching game but Saina kept her focus to win it.

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 4 - Saturday, December 11, 2010
Vladimir Kramnik 1-0 David Howell
Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Hikaru Nakamura
Nigel Short 0-1 Viswanathan Anand
Luke McShane ½-½ Michael Adams

Anand gave good birthday gift to himself scoring win with Blacks over Nigel Short ... So with this 43 moves win Anand is joint leader with Luke McShane, 8 pts. ½-½
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Round 3
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) ½-½ IM Anna Zatonskih (USA,2478) 1½-½
IM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR,2462) ½-½ IM Dronavalli Harika (IND,2525) 1-1

Humpy drew her second game with Anna Zatonskih to complete 1½-½ win ... Dronavalli Harika drew her game, she will play tie-break tomorrow.

Football News
At I-League 2010-11, India - Round III

Mumbai FC bt HAL, Bangalore

Goal Scored - Ebisukore (MFC) 64'
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Churchill Brothers bt Mohun Bagan 2-0

Goal Scored - Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 4' and 66' P
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East Bengal bt AIFF XI 4-0

Goal Scored - Robin Singh (EB) 49' and 73', Penn Orji (EB) 68', Tolgay Ozbey (EB) 79'
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ONGC, Mumbai l Salgaocar SC 0-1

Goal Scored - Yusif Yakubu (SSC) 65'
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Viva Kerala dw Pune FC 1-1

Goal Scored - Jimshad (VK) 73' and Sunil Kumar (PFC) 90+'
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Chirag United dw Air India 0-0
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Dempo SC bt JCT Mills, Phagwara 2-0

Goal Scored -Beto (DSC) 25' and 35'

Dempo scored win over JCT but Chirag held by Air men.

In high profile match Okolie scored in both half to helped Churchill secured full points against Mohun Bagan ... East Bengal side gave lesson to young AIFF XI scoring 4 goals in second half ... Salgaocar continued with their dream run winning their 3rd match on a row ... Pune FC had lucky escape against Viva, where they scored equalizer in the last minute of the match.

Mumbai FC continued with their good run and scored victory over HAL.

Badminton News
At $250K Hong Kong Open Super Series 2010, Wanchai

[SF] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt (6) Juliane Schenk (GER,6) 21-19 17-21 21-12

[F] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs (3) Shixian Wang (CHN,5)

Saina won very close match against improved Juliane Schenk in 53 mins to moved into the final ... So another Super Series final for Saina ... Next she is facing tough challenge from Chinese Shixian Wang.

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 3 - Friday, December 10, 2010
Luke McShane ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
Michael Adams ½-½ Nigel Short
Viswanathan Anand 1-0 Magnus Carlsen
Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ David Howell

This was a huge win for Anand as in first 2 rounds he managed only draw with lower rated players and this tournament format doesn't favoring draw as points structure is 3-1-0 ... So McShane was already ahead with 6 pts after 2 rounds with 2 wins and other hand Anand had only 2 pts from 2 draws ... Now after 3 rounds McShane is leading with 7 pts, Anand and Nakamura r second with 5 pts.

Game between Anand and Carlsen couldn't describe better than what Chessbase site wrote - "Anand got into trouble against Carlsen, then Magnus was completely lost, almost saved it and finally succumbed."

Match between current WR #1 and WR #2 played like top match ... The game started with a Ruy Lopez but Anand was little struggling with his opening moves ... Anand's move 24...Be6 was turn table and slowly Anand take control still Carlsen was playing good defensive game ... Anand played excellent endgame and managed to keep pressure ... Carlsen resigned after 77th move ... McShane had lucky escape aginst Kramnik after 139 moves.
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Round 3
IM Anna Zatonskih (USA,2478) 0-1 GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600)
IM Dronavalli Harika (IND,2525) ½-½ IM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR,2462)

Humpy started well beating American Zatonskih with Blacks ... Muzychuk hold Harika playing with Blacks, now Harika having tough task to win her match playing with Blacks.

Badminton News
At $250K Hong Kong Open Super Series 2010, Wanchai

[QF] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) bt Pui Yin Yip (HKG,12) 21-11 21-10

[SF] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) vs (6) Juliane Schenk (GER,9)

Saina take revenge with crushing victory over Pui Yin Yip, who defeated Saina in Asian games quarter-final ... Today Saina outplayed Hong Kong player in one-sided match ... Saina won match in just 27 mins and losing only 21 pts.

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 2 - Thursday, December 9, 2010
Vladimir Kramnik 0-1 Hikaru Nakamura
David Howell ½-½ Viswanathan Anand
Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Michael Adams
Nigel Short 0-1 Luke McShane

Disappointing result for Anand against tournament's lower ranked British player ... He again managed only draw after 50 moves ... In other matches Kramnik had surprising defeat against Nakamura ... Carlsen stike back with win but McShane scored another upset win over his experienced and highe ranked team-mate Short to take a lead.
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Round 3
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) vs IM Anna Zatonskih (USA,2478)
IM Dronavalli Harika (IND,2525) vs IM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR,2462)

Badminton News
At $250K Hong Kong Open Super Series 2010, Wanchai

[R1] P Kashyap (IND,38) bt Yu Hsing Hsieh (TPE,31) 21-14 19-21 21-18
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,36) l Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,28) 13-21 21-23
[R1] R.M.V Gurusai Datt (IND,41) l Wing Ki Wong (HKG,40) 12-21 21-19 13-21

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,2) bt Tsz Ka Chan (HKG,35) 21-16 21-18

[R2] P Kashyap (IND,38) l (5) Jin Chen (CHN,4) 15-21 18-21
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,2) bt Salakjit Ponsana (THA,32) 21-10 21-12

Saina won her first 2 round matches convincingly, she won both matches inside half-hour.

Kashyap also started with upset win but faced tough second round against WR #4 Chinese player Jin Chen ... Though match ended in straight games still Kashyap played well in this 45 mins long match.

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 1 - Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Nigel Short 0-1 Vladimir Kramnik
Luke McShane 1-0 Magnus Carlsen
Michael Adams 1-0 David Howell
Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Hikaru Nakamura

Anand tried hard to win his game against Nakamura but couldn't break his resistance and agreed for draw after 74 moves ... In shocking result Carlsen lost against British McShane ... In second round Anand is facing David Howell. ½-½
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Round 2
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) bt IM Jovanka Houska (ENG,2421) 1½-½
IM Dronavalli Harika (IND,2525) bt WGM Tatiana Shadrina (RUS,2384) 2-0

Round 1
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) bt WGM Melissa Greeff (RSA,2082) 2-0
IM Dronavalli Harika (IND,2525) bt WGM Kruttika Nadig (IND,2230) 1½-½
WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman (IND,2328) l GM Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO,2502) 0-2
WGM Soumya Swaminathan (IND,2332) l GM Monika Socko (POL,2495) ½-1½

Good promising start from Humpy and Harika ... Both scored comfortable wins in their first 2 matches ... From round 3 they will face tougher challenge.

Football News
At I-League 2010-11, India - Round II

In round 2 matches, Salgaocar SC scored win in very high scoring match and with 2 wins in 2 matches they take early lead on leaderboard ... In other matches JCT hold Churchill and Airmen hold Viva.

HAL scored big upset beating giant Mohun Bagan in away match ... Dempo also suffered loss in hands of East Bengal side ... Pune FC again failed to solve puzzle of Mumbai team and lost against Mumbai FC ... Young AIFF side earned their first I League point after holding ONGC.

Mohun Bagan l HAL, Banglore 1-2

Goal Scored - Jose Ramirez Barreto (MB) 30' and Bijesh Kumar (HAL) 20', J.Murali (HAL) 81'
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Mumbai FC bt Pune FC 2-0

Goal Scored -
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Dempo SC l East Bengal 0-1

Goal Scored - Tolgay Ozbey (EB) 47'
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AIFF XI dw ONGC, Mumbai 1-1 (0-1),1-1

Goal Scored - Jeje (AIFF) 78' and Baba Tunde (ONGC) 46'
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Salgaocar SC bt Chirag United 4-3

Goal Scored - Gilbert Oliveira (SSC) 1' & 49', Ryuji Sueoka (SSC) 13', Anthony Barbosa (SSC) 80' and Joshimar Da Silva Martins (CU) 45+' & 90+', Denson Devadas (CU) 63'
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JCT Mills, Phagwara dw Churchill Brothers 1-1

Goal Scored -Balwant Singh (JCT) 37' and Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 65'
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Air India dw Viva Kerala 1-1

Goal Scored - Manjit Singh (AI) 33' and Sabeeth C.S (VK) 9'

Tennis News
At $10K Dominican Republic F3, Santo Domingo

[R1] [R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,565) l Phillip Simmonds (USA,582) 62 46 16

Doubles
[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND)/ Sandro Ehrat (SUI) bt Manuel Sanchez (MEX)/ Antoine Tassart (FRA) 60 62

[QF] Rupesh Roy (IND)/ Sandro Ehrat (SUI) l (1) Matwe Middelkoop (NED)/ Tim Van Terheijden (NED) 36 57

Rupesh lost against Simmonds after winning first set.

But in doubles Rupesh had very convincing start with his swiss partner, Sandro Ehrat ... But lost against top-seed Dutch pair.

Football News
At I-League 2010-11, India - Round I

Dempo SC dw Churchill Brothers 1-1

Goal Scored - Clifton Gonsalves (DSC) 58' and Odafe Okolie (CB)
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East Bengal bt ONGC, Mumbai 1-0

Goal Scored - Tolgay Ozbey (EB) 84'
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Pune FC dw Mohun Bagan 1-1

Goal Scored - Arata Izumi (PFC) and Snehasish Chakraborty (MB) 33'
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Chirag United bt AIFF XI 2-1

Goal Scored - Elijah Junior (CU) 3' & 44' and Lalrindika Ralte (AIFF) 21'
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Air India l Mumbai FC 1-2

Goal Scored -Yusif Ibrahim (AI) 63' and Ezeh Henry (MFC) 65', Nicolas Rodrigues (MFC) 68'
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Viva Kerala l Salgaocar SC 0-3

Goal Scored - Ryuji Sueoka (SSC) 8' & 61', Anthony Barbosa (JCT) 45'
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JCT Phagwara l HAL, Banglore 0-1

Goal Scored - Xavier Vijay Kumar (HAL) 13'

Season 2010-11 started from today ... This time we need to see how our youngsters and bench strength is going to perform as our top-24 players r busy with their national duty.

On first day new comer HAL scored upset win over JCT in away match ... Chirag managed to hold young AIFF XI challenge ... Salgaocar and Mumbai FC had winning start ... Pune FC hold mighty Mohun Bagan in well deserving draw.

East Bengal needed late goal to beat newcomer ONGC ... In big local derby Dempo scored crucial goal in early of second half but late equalizer from Odafe Okolie ended on equal term.

Tennis News
At $10K Dominican Republic F2, Santo Domingo

[QF] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,512) l (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,221) 46 76(7) 16

I would have preferred more close score in third but good to see Yuki showed improvement from last week against this local top-225 player.

Tennis News
At $10K Dominican Republic F2, Santo Domingo

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) l (2) Matwe Middlekoop (NED,286) 57 16
[R2] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,512) bt (Q) Marcos Giron (USA,1335) 64 63

[QF] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,512) vs (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,221)

Doubles
[QF] Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) l Piero Luisi (VEN)/ Roman Recarte (VEN) 46 46

Expected win for Yuki ... Rupesh also gave decent fight against top-300 player ... Yuki's next match against top225 Estrella ... Hoping much decent performance this time as last week he managed to win only 2 games against same opponent.

Tennis News
At $10K Dominican Republic F2, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) bt (Q) Sandro Ehrat (SUI,771) 64 36 63

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) v. (2) Matwe Middlekoop (NED,286)
[R2] (8)Yuki Bhambri (IND,512) v. (Q) Marcos Giron (USA,1335)

After 3 sets win in his first round Rupesh having tough match against top-300 second seed player.

Tennis News
At $10K Dominican Republic F2, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) vs (Q) Sandro Ehrat (SUI,771)
[R1] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) bt Phillip Simmonds (USA,588) 76(4) 63

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) bt Jaroslaw Bienkowski (POL)/ Adam Majchrowicz (POL) 75 61

[QF] Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) vs Piero Luisi (VEN)/ Roman Recarte (VEN)

Good win in straight sets for Yuki in tricky match against experienced journeyman on futures, who was top-225 player few years back ... Rupesh started with win with his Zimbabwean partner in doubles.

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Doubles Final
(3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(6) 46

After giving valiant effort in the first set Mahesh and Max lost in close tie-break ... Nestor and Zimo won second set with a break to lift another ATP World Tour Finals title ... Other hand another time Mahesh failed to win this year-end prestigious tournament, so his search for first title of this tournament continue.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F2, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) vs Qualifier
[R1] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) vs Phillip Simmonds (USA,588)

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) vs Jaroslaw Bienkowski (POL)/ Adam Majchrowicz (POL)

After winning first round Rupesh can meet 2nd seed top-330 Dutch opponent Matwe Middelkoop, who was runne-up in last week Dominican Republic F1 ... Yuki having tricky first round match against former top-300 Simmonds ... He is again in same draw with local top-seed and last week's winner Victor Estrella.

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

[SF] (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) bt (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 63 36 12-10
[SF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt (6) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 64 64

[F] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Mahesh and Max scored straight sets victory over Polish pair to moved final of ATP World Tour Doubles Final ... In this match they faced 4 break points but saved all, other hand they created 11 break point opportunities to broke opponents twice ... In the final they r facing WR #2 pair of Nestor and Zimo, with whom they lost in group match.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

Doubles Final
(1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Tasuku Iwami (JPN)/ Hiroki Kondo (JPN) 61 62

Purav and Treat scored dominating victory over their Japanese opponents only losing 3 games to win Toyota Challenger doubles title ... Frankly in this challenger they never face any challenge ... In first round against Vishnu and Divij they lost 7 games in a match and those were highest number of games in a match.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today India won 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze medals that lifted India to 6th position in Medal Standing ... India is having 14 Gold, 17 Silver and 33 Bronze medals ... We r having total 64 medals so we improved past record of winning total Gold and total medals ... In 1982 Delhi Asian games we won 13 Gold medals in total 57 medals ... So with that we r finishing our highest place in standing, i.e. on 6th position with highest Gold medals and total medals ... Congratulation to Indian contingent for creditable performance after playing big tournament, Commonwealth Games, just before a month.

In athletics our Women's 4 x 400m Relay team - Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur - managed to repeat their Commonwealth Gold medal run ... Today they won taking lead of a second over 2nd place Kazakhstan ... Again Ashwini ran excellent 3rd leg and that helped Mandeep to kept lead over Kazak ... This was Ashwini's 2nd Gold medal after her 400m Hurdles victory ... In Women's 5000m Final our both runners gave personal best timing to finished on 2nd and 3rd position ... Preeja Sreedharan was just 0.40 sec behind Gold medalist clocking 15:15.89 and Kavita Raut finished on third with 15:16.54 timing ... Excellent result for Preeja and Kavita.

Otherwise disappointing performance in athletics ... In Mens 4X100 we missed Bronze by 0.01 sec ... We finished race in 39.10 behind Bronze medalist Thai, whoc clocked 39.09 ... Our Men's 4 x 400m Relay team ended on 4th position with 3:06.49 ... In Men's Triple Jump Renjith Maheshwari jumped 16.76m to finished on 4th ... In Men's Shot Put Om Prakas managed to throw 19.17m to finished on 4th position ... In 10,000M Suresh Kumar ran a PB timing of 28.59.98 but that placed him 8th in final standing ... In Womens 4 x 100 M Relay we finished on 5th position.

In boxing in Men's 75kg Vijender Singh played control bout against Uzbek's Abbos Atoev ... Vijender sticked to basic in this bout and won all rounds with 2-0, 3-0 and 2-0 margin to won bout 7-0 to gave India their 2nd Gold medal in boxing ... In 64kg category our young boxer Santosh Kumar toued by Kazakhstan boxer Daniyar Yeleussinov ... Daniyar scored very impressive one-sided victory over Sanotsh Kumar, who wasn't inthe match from the start and lost 1-16 ... In Super Heavyweight Men's 91kg Manpreet Singh also lost easily against Syrian boxer Mohammad Ghossoun ... Mohammad didn't give Manpreet any chance in 8-1 win.

So in Boxing we finished with 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze medals ... I was expecting 3 Gold medals but overall satisfying performance by our bpxers.

In Kabaddi we won both men's and women's events ... This was expectation from the start but as expected both Iranian team gave us tough fight ... In Women's final we defeated Thailand 28-14 and Men's final we defeated Iran 37-20, where Iranians tried spirited comeback in second-half.

In Roller skating we recieved surprising 2 medals from Anup Kumar Yama, who finished 3rd in Men's Single Free Skating Long Program with 244.2 pts ... Then with Avani Bharath Kumar Panchal he won Bronze in Pairs Skating.

In chess our men side defeated Iran 3.5-0.5 to won Bronze but otherhand our women recieved another shocking defeat on hands of Vietnamese girls in tie-break after 2-2 draw.

In Men's volleyball we finished on respectable sixth position ... China defeated us in 5th position match 3-0, 18-25 17-25 18-25.

In wrestling only Suman Kundu managed to qualify for medal round but she lost easily in her bronze medal bout to a Chinese, 0-5.

Boxing - Men's 75kg
Gold - Vijender Singh (IND)
Silver - Abbos Atoev (UZB)
Bronze - Mohammad Sattarpour (IRI) and Danabek Suzhanov (KAZ)

Athletics - Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Gold - India 3:29.02
Silver - Kazakhstan 3:30.03
Bronze - China 3:30.89

Kabaddi - Women
Gold - India
Silver - Thailand
Bronze - Bangladesh and Iran

Kabaddi - Men
Gold - India
Silver - Iran
Bronze - Pakistan and Japan

Athletics - Women's 5000m Final
Gold - Mimi Belete Gebregeiorges (BRN) 15:15.59 PB
Silver - Preeja Sreedharan (IND) 15:15.89 PB
Bronze - Kavita Raut (IND) 15:16.54 PB

Boxing - Men's 64kg
Gold - Daniyar Yeleussinov (KAZ)
Silver - Santosh Kumar Virothu (IND)
Bronze - Wuttichai Masuk (THA) and Sanjarbek Rahmanov (UZB)

Boxing - Men's 91kg
Gold - Mohammad Ghossoun (SYR)
Silver - Manpreet Singh (IND)
Bronze - Ali Mazaheri (IRI) and Jakhon Qurbonov (TJK)

Roller Sports - Men's Single Free Skating Long Program
Gold - Shingo Nishiki (JPN) 253.8 pts
Silver - Chia Chen Yeh (TPE) 248.4
Bronze - Anup Kumar Yama (IND) 244.2 pts

Roller Sports - Pairs Skating
Gold - Yawen Lin/ Yunqin Tang (CHN)
Silver - Tzu Hsia Weng/ Li Hsin Chen (TPE)
Bronze - Anup Kumar Yama/ Avani Bharath Kumar Panchal (IND)

Chess - Men's Team
Gold - China
Silver - Philippines
Bronze - India

Boxing - Women's 69-75kg
Gold - Jinzi Li (CHN)
Silver - Undram Erdenesoyol (MGL)
Bronze - Kavita Goyat (IND) and Suyeon Seong (KOR)

Tennis News
Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group B
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Wesley Moodie (RSA)/ Dick Norman (SWE) 64 64

[SF] (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) vs (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)
[SF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs (6) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Mhesh and Max sticked to their task in last group match ... They scored comfortable straight sets win over Moodie and Norman to moved into ATP World Tour Doubles Final ... In other match Nestor and Zimo lost so our pair qualified topping the Group B.

In semis they r facing 6th seed Polish pair, who qualified at #2 from group A and other semis will be seen between top 2 doubles teams.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[SF] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) 62 62

[F] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Tasuku Iwami (JPN)/ Hiroki Kondo (JPN)

Top-seed pair of Purav and Treat r on roll here ... They scored another convincing easy victory to moved into the final ... In the final they r facing local unseeded pair.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) l (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218) 26 06

Loss was expected but disappointing efforts from Yuki in this match ... Overall he struggled in this futures from start against lower ranked players also.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

After winning 3 Gold medals India moved to 8th position with 10 Gold, 14 Silver and 29 Bronze medals.

In athletics in Women's 400m Hurdles Final Ashwini Akkunji produced personal best timing to win Gold medal ... So this is our first Gold medal in 400m Hurdles after 24 yrs when P.T. Usha won it ... Jauna Murmu also clocked personal best timing, 56.88, but she missed bronze medal by 0.06 sec.

In athletics in Men's 400m Hurdles Final Joseph Abraham clocked his season best timing below 50 sec to won Gold medal.

In Women's 800m Final, I was expecting Gold from Tintu but she couldn't produce her personal best timing and finished third behind Kazakhstan and Vietnam runners who clocked personal best timing ... In Women's 200m Final Geetha Satti finished on 5th position with 23.91 timing, this was her season best timing ... Men's 200m Final Sathya Suresh finished on 7th place with 21.07 timing.

In boxing in Men's 60kg category 18 yrs old Vikas Krishan won his first Asian game Gold medal in closely fought match against local favourite Qing Hu ... After first round both boxers were equal with 1-all .. In second round Vikas scored important points to won it 3-2 and in end that turned crucial as in third round both boxers managed to score 1 pt ... So Vikas won this gold medal bout 5-4 ... But in Men's 81kg Dinesh Kumar couldn't manage to produce much fight against Uzbek after first round ... He lost bout easily 4-10 to remained happy with Silver.

Indian men managed to win Bronze medal in field hockey beating South Korea ... This was good result after their poor unexpected loss against Malaysian side ... Tushar Khandekar scored important goal in 40th minte and that was the only goal scored in the match ... Pakistan won gold medal beating Malaysian side 2-0 and grabbed Olympics quota.

In wrestling in Men's Freestyle 96 kg Mausam Khatri won Bronze medal beating South Korean Jaegang Kim 3-1 ... This was India's 3rd bronze medal in wrestling.

In Kabaddi Indian men scored convicing victory over Japanese side 52-17 to moved in the final, they will face Iran in the final who defeated Pakistan in close match ... On women side Indian women managed to avoid defeat and won in very close match against Iranian women, 23-22 ... In the final they r playing against Thai women.

In chess Men's Team event India lost against lower rated Philippines team 1.5-2.5 in semis ... Harikrishna scored win against higher rated Wesley So but Sasikiran anf Gopal lost their matches ... In Women's Team India also lost against lower rated Uzbekistan team in semis ... Harika scored win in her match but Eesha Karavade and Nisha Mohota disappointed in their losses.

In women's volleyball Indian team finished on 9th position beating Maldives comfortably 3-0, 25-4 25-5 25-7.

Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Ashwini Chidananda Akkunji (IND) 56.15 PB
Silver - Xing Wang (CHN) 56.76
Bronze - Satomi Kubokura (JPN) 56.83

Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Joseph Abraham (IND) 49.96 SB
Silver - Bandar Yahya Sharahili (KSA) 50.29
Bronze - Naohiro Kawakita (JPN) 50.37

Boxing - Men's 60kg
Gold - Vikas Krishan (IND)
Silver - Qing Hu (CHN)
Bronze - Soonchul Han (KOR) and Hurshid Tojibaev (UZB)

Boxing - Men's 81kg
Gold - Elshod Rasulov (UZB)
Silver - Dinesh Kumar (IND)
Bronze - Deepak Maharjan (NEP) and Fanlong Meng (CHN)

Hockey - Men
Gold - Pakistan
Silver - Malaysia
Bronze - India

Athletics - Women's 800m Final
Gold - Margarita Matsko (KAZ) 2:00.29
Silver - Thanh Hang Truong (VIE) 2:00.91
Bronze - Tintu Lukka (IND) 2:01.36

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 96 kg
Gold - Reza Yazdani (IRI)
Silver - Kurban Kurbanov (UZE)
Bronze - Mausam Khatri (IND) and Takao Isokawa (JPN)

Boxing - Women's 48-51kg
Gold - Cancan Ren (CHN)
Silver - Annie Albania (PHI)
Bronze - Mary Kom (IND) and Aya Shinmoto (JPN)

Boxing - Men's 52kg
Gold - Rey Saludar (PHI)
Silver - Yong Chang (CHN)
Bronze - Suranjoy Singh (IND) and Katsuki Susa (JPN)

Boxing - Men's +91kg
Gold - Zhilei Zhang (CHN)
Silver - Ivan Dychko (KAZ)
Bronze - Paramjeet Samota (IND) and Roohollah Hosseini (IRI)

Squash - Men's Team
Gold - Pakistan
Silver - Malaysia
Bronze - India and Hong Kong

Squash - Women's Team
Gold - Malaysia
Silver - Hong Kong
Bronze - India and South Korea

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group A
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 36 46

Group B
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(5) 67(1)

Mahesh and Max lost in close tie-breaks against Nestor and Zimo ... Now they need to win match against Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman to qualify for semis.

Other hand Lee and Lukas challenge got over with their 3rd loss in group A ... This was their last match as regular partners.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,382) l Daniel Yoo (KOR,395) 67(4) 64 36

Doubles
[R1] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 63 64
[QF] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Yuki Matsuo (JPN)/ Arata Onozawa (JPN) 62 63

[SF] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR)

Vishnu couldn't won his singles match against similar ranked Korean Yoo ... In doubles also he lost with Divij against top-seed pair of Purav and Treat ... Purav and Treat also won quarter final easily and in semis they r facing unseeded pair.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) l (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218) 26 06
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) bt (LL) Martin Prikryl (CZE,893) 61 76(4)

[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) vs (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218)

Yuki moved to quarters but there he is facing top-seed top-200 type local player Estrella, who defeated Rupesh in second round losing only 2 games.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Tarundeep Rai created history as he become the first Indian archer to win silver medal in the singles event at the Asian Games ... He lost final against WR #1 Korean archer Woojin Kim 3-7 ... Before that in semis he upset Chinese Taipei archer Chia Chun Sung 7-3 ... In quarter final he scored big upset win over WR #2 Korean archer Jinhyek Oh 6-4 ... In R16 he defeated Malaysian archer Chu Sian Cheng 6-2, in same round Rahul Banerjee lost his match against Chinese Taipei archer Chia Chun Sung 0-6 ... In first round he defeated Vietnamese archer Trong Kien Dao 5-1.

In boxing in Men's 75kg semi-final Vijener Singh defeated Iranian boxer Mohammad Sattarpour in closely fought bout 10-7 ... After first round Vijener was down 1-2 but he started taking control from second round when he was leading 5-4 and then increased lead in the final round to complete victory ... In the final Vijener will face Uzbek boxer Abbos Atoev ... In Super Heavyweight Men's 91kg Manpreet Singh scored dominating victory 10-2 over Tajikistan Jakhon Qurbonov ... He was too strong for Tajikistan boxer ... In the final he will face Syrian boxer Mohammad Ghossoun ... In Men's 60kg young 19yrs old Vikas Krishan continued with his good run scoring another dominating win over Uzbek's Hurshid Tojibaev 7-0 to moved into the final ... In the final Vikas is facing Chinese Qing Hu ... In Men's 81kg category Dinesh Kumar scored comfortable win over Nepalese boxer Deepak Maharjan 7-1 to moved into the final ... He will face Uzbek boxer Elshod Rasulov in the final ... Our another young boxer Santosh Kumar in 64kg category showed good skill and technique to upset Thai boxer Wuttichai Masuk 5-1 to reached in the final ... In the final he is facing Kazakhstan boxer Daniyar Yeleussinov ... In Men's 52kg category Suranjoy Singh Mayengbam lost close bout against Chinese boxer Yong Change 5-6 ... This was shocking result as Suranjoy Singh was consider as Gold medal hope ... In the men's +91 kg category Paramjeet Samota lost one-sided match against Chinese Zhilei Zhang, he was 3-15 down when referee stopped bout and declared Chinese boxer winner through technical knock-out ... In men's boxing categories our 5 boxers r in the final and we won 2 Bronze medals.

In boxing in Women's 69-75kg Kavita Goyat lost to China's Jinzi Li 1-5 ... In Women's 48-51kg category Mary Kom lost against Chinese opponent Cancan Ren 7-11 ... Mery Kom need to do lot of adjustment before Olympics to participate in this higher weight category ... So our both woman boxers won Bronze.

In squash Indian men lost to Pakistan 0-2 and Indian women lost to Malaysian side 0-2 in semis, so both teams won Bronze medals.

In athletics in women's 400 hurdles Ashwini clocked 56.43 with her PB to win heat 1 and then Jauna Murmu clocked 57.17 her PB to win heat 2, so good chance of Gold medal in this event after 24 yrs when PT Usha won Gold medal at Seoul ... In men's 400m hurdles Abraham Joseph with 50.93 having second best qualifying time for the final ... In 800m heat Tintu (2:04.84) and Sinimol (2:03.83) qualified to the final ... They are 3rd and 4th in the heats timings behind Matsko (2:03.23) and Truong (2:04.24) ... In 200m men Suresh Sathya won his heat with 21.02 and made it to the final ... His timing was 3rd best timing in the heats ... In 200m women Geeta Satti qualified for the final 24.08, but had only a 7th best timing ... In Men's Discus Final Vikas Gowda finished on fourth with a 63.13.

In womens hockey Indian women lost against Japanese women 1-0 in Bronze medal match when Japan scored goal in extra-time on penalty corner.

In chess 7th round Indian men hold 2-all by lowly ranked Iranian team ... Sasikiran Krishnan scored victory but Gopal's loss cost us victory ... Our women scored dominating 4-0 win over Syrian girls as our all players won their matches.

In Kabbadi our women team qualified for semi-final winning their all matches in the group, in last match they defeated South Korean team 47-21 .. And our men also scored victory over South Koreans in close match then expected 37-19.

In Karate in Women's -50 kg Valena Valentina didn't play her Bronze medal match after getting injured in semi-final loss against Chinese opponent.

In volleyball for Men's Placement 5-8 match Indian side scored thumping win over Qatar 3-0, 25-23 25-16 25-17, so now for 5th place match they will play against Chinese team.

In wrestling Men's freestyle our all 3 wrestlers failed to win medal ... Pradeep Kumar and Ram Vir lost their bronze medal matches and Narsingh Yadav lost in quarter-final.

Archery - Men's Individual
Gold - Woojin Kim (KOR)
Silver - Tarundeep Rai (IND)
Bronze - Chia Chun Sung (TPE)

Tennis News
At ATP World TOur Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group A
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER) 67(9) 64 8-10

Another disappointing loss for Lee and Lukas ... This was their 5th loss in the row in ATP Doubles Final, last year also they lost all 3 matches.


After losing first set in close tie-break Lee and Lukas won second set ... In super tie-break Lee and Lukas were up 8-4 before Lukas started to make errors and that cost them match ... So with this Lee and Lukas challenge is over in Doubles Final.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) bt (LL) Gaetan De DeLovinfosse (BEL,1077) 63 62
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) bt (Q) Dmitri Sitak (RUS,907) 36 62 64

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) vs (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218)
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) vs (LL) Martin Prikryl (CZE,893)

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) l (4) Mikelis LIBIETIS (LAT)/ Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT) 67(2) 26

Good recovery by Yuki but overall good to see winning start for our players in singles.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today India won 1 Gold and 2 Bronze medals ... HIGH of the day was Somdev winning India's first-ever tennis singles Gold medal and LOW of the day Indian hockey side losing to Malaysia in semi-final.

What a player is Somdev Kishore Devvarman ... He again showed whenever he play for the country he is giving more than 100% ... In the final he demolished WR #40 Uzbek Denis Istomin 61 62 ... In both sets Somi lost his serve once but he broke Istomi's serve 7 times in the match, 4 times in first set and 3 times in second ... Only once Istomin managed to hold his serve and that was in second set ... With this win Somdev became first Indian player to won Gold in tennis singles and he also became double gold medalists as yesterday he won doubles Gold with Sanam Singh ... So now Somdev is Asian Games and Commonweath Games tennis singles Gold medalist.

But then we had horrible result in hockey ... After Pakistan defeated South Koreans in tie-break India had good chance to make Indo_pak gold medal match in hockey but that didn't happen ... Indians started slowly against Malaysians ... Malaysia scored first goal but we equalized on hooter through PC conversion from Sandeep Singh ... In second half we were up immediately when Tushar Khandekar scored but Malaysian made it 2-all ... Then Rajpal Singh scored goal to gave Indian side 3-2 lead but again we take goal in dying moment of 70 mins to make it 3-all ... In extra-time Malaysia's Rahim Mohammad Amin scored golden goal in end of extra-time to gave memorable win and now Indian side will play against South Koreans for Bronze medal match.

In archery Women's Individual Deepika Kumari failed to won medal ... In first round she and Rimil Buriuly won their first round matches comfortably ... In R16 Deepika Kumari scored victory over Indonesian Erwina Safitri 7-3 but Rimil Buriuly lost her match against Chinese Taipei archer Ya Ting Tan 2-6 ... In quarter final Deepika Kumari defeated Chinese Taipei archer Ya Ting Tan 6-4 ... But in the semi final she lost against Korean WR #1 Okhee Yun 6-2 but surprisingly Deepika Kumari her Bronze medal match against North Korean archer Un Sil Kwon 2-6.

In Athletics in Women's Discus Throw Final CWG Gold medalist Krishna Poonia won Bronze medal with throw of 61.94m which she throw on first attempt ... Harwant Kaur finished on fourth with throw of 57.55m ... In Women's Heptathlon India's Pramila Ganapathy Gudandda won Bronze medal with 5415 pts ... Our Susmita Singha Roy finished on fourth position with 5051 pts ... In Men's 4 x 400m Relay India qualified for final with 4th best qualifying time, 3:07.00 ... In Men's 4 x 100m Relay also India qualified for the final with 4th best qualifying time, 39.62s ... In Women's 4 x 100m Relay India qualified for the final with 5th best qualifying time, 45.44s.

In Canoe/Kayak Sprint in Men's Kayak Single 1000m Semifinal India's Bhupender Singh Pundir and Jamesboy Singh Oinam qualified for the final ... Jamesboy also qualified for Men's Canoe Single 200m Final.

In chess Men's Team Round 6 Indian side defeated Qatar 3.5-0.5 ... Harikrishna, Sasikiran Krishnan and Surya Shekhar Ganguly won their match ... This win moved Indian team to 3rd position ... In women's section Indian side defeated Bangladesh 3.5-0.5 ... Esha Karavade, S. Meenakshi and Nisha Mohota won their matches ... India is still on 2nd position behind China.

In Kabaddi in Men's Group A match Indian side scored good win against strong team of Iran 40-24.

In squash in Men's Team Pool B match Indian side defeated South Korea 3-0 to moved into semis but lost against Malaysian side 1-2 to finished on second position ... In semifinal we r facing Pakistan ... In Women's Team Pool B match we lost against Hong Kong side 0-3 so we r playing top-seed Malaysia into semis.

In Men's Greco-Roman our bad performance continued ... Dharmender Dalal lost Bronze medal match against Iraqi wrestler in 120 kg category.

Tennis - Men's Singles
Gold - Somdev Devvarman (IND)
Silver - Denis Istomin (UZB)
Bronze - Go Soeda (JPN) and Tatsuma Ito (JPN)

Athletics - Women's Discus Throw Final
Gold - Yanfeng Li (CHN) 66.18m
Silver - Aimin Song (CHN) 64.04m
Bronze - Krishna Poonia (IND) 61.94m

Athletics - Women's Heptathlon
Gold - Yuliya Tarasova (UZB) 5783 pts
Silver - Yuki Nakata (JPN) 5606 pts
Bronze - Pramila Ganapathy Gudandda (IND) 5415 pts

Tennis - Women's Singles
Gold - Shuai Peng (CHN)
Silver - Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)
Bronze - Sania Mirza (IND) and Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group B
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 76(2) 64

Mahesh and Max started with straight sets victory over tricky pair of Kubot and Marach ... Good start for qualifying for semis.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,382) vs Daniel Yoo (KOR,395)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)

Hope Vishnu reaches early in Japan after today's Silver medal at Asiad in MXD ... Facing similar ranked player in singles.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh ROY (IND,563) vs Qualifier
[R1] (7) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,515) vs Qualifier

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) vs (4) Mikelis LIBIETIS (LAT)/ Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT)

Yuki and Rupesh is playing at Dominican Republic futures.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Now India having 36 medals ... 6 Gold, 12 Silver and 18 Bronze medals.

Today in tennis India won a Gold and a Silver ... Somdev and Sanam won against local pair of 2nd seed Zhe Li and Maoxin Gong in STB, 63 67(4) 10-8 ... After winning first set easily in second set both pairs traded multiple breaks ... In tie-break Chinese pair was strong for our pair ... In super tie-break our pair take lead wit mini-breaks ... They had 4 match points at 9-5 but Chinese pair managed to save 3 before our pair converted 4th to won this match ... In this match Somdev was erratic but Sanam played exceptional tennis to helped India to won their 5th men's doubles Gold in a row ... In mixed doubles final Sania and Vishnu started well winning first set but from second set their game totally dropped down as Sania was committing too many unforced errors and second seed Chinese Taipei pair of Yung Jan Chan and Tsung Hua Yang take full advantage of it winning next set and STB easily, 64 16 2-10 ... In mens singles semi-final Somdev won first set easily against Tatsuma Ito breaking his serve twice ... But then Somdev lost 7 games in a row and in that his serve got broken 4 times to lose second set 0-6 ... At that time Tatsuma was controlling match and points ... In third set Somdev digged deep to come out of slump to finished match 6-3 ... In the final Somdev is facing top-seed and WR #40 Uzbek Denis Istomin.

In archery men's recurve team won Bronze medal like their women counterparts ... They won Bronze medal match against Chinese Taipei 220-216 ... Before that they lost against WR #1 Korean team in semis 216-222 ... In quarter final Indian team defeated Nepal 221-194 ... And in first round we defeated Bangladeshi team 221-186.

In boxing in Women's 48-51kg category Mary Kom scored dominating victory over Chinese Taipei boxer Meng Chieh Ping 16-2 to moved into semi-final ... In semis she is having tough challenge of local player Cancan Ren ... In Women's 69-75kg category Kavita Goyat won close bout against Kazakhstan Marina Volnova 8-7 to moved into semis ... She is also facing another local player Jinzi Li ... But in Women's 57-60kg category Preeti Beniwal lost her quarter-final against Thai Tassamalee Thongjan, referee stopped bout when Preeti got injured and she was 0-3 down when only 53 secs were remaining in the final round.

In boxing Men's 64kg category young 19 yrs old Santhosh Kumar Virothu scored victory in quarter final on more body punch counts after his match ended in 3-all against Mongolian Tuvshinbat Byamba ... After first round Santosh Kumar was leading 1-0 but Mongolian boxer made it equal after second round 1-all ... In final round both boxers earned 2 pts each but Santosh Kumar was ahead in body punches count to win bout and moved into semis ... Insemis he is facing Thai boxer Wuttichai Masuk ... But in Men's 46-49kg category Amandeep Singh lost his quarter final bout against Philippines boxer Victorio Iii Saludar 1-6.

In Kabaddi Women's Group B match India defeated Bangladesh 34-20 ... In this match Indian coach tried his bench stength in later stage of match.

In squash Men's Team Pool B match India registered their second win a row beating Japan 3-0 and in afternoon session they defeated Saudi Arabia with identical score 3-0 ... In Women's Team Pool B match India scored 3-0 win over China ... Women also scored 3-0 win over Pakistan in afternoon session match.

In chess our men team lost against Philippines team 2.5-1.5 ... Surya Shekhar Ganguly won his match but Harikrishna and Adhiban lost their respective matches ... Our women team scored crushing victory over Mongolia 3.5 ... They r tied for top spot with Chinese team ... Harika Dronavalli, S. Meenakshi and Nisha Mohota won their matches.

In athletics Hardeep Kaur finished on 4th in Women's Hammer Throw Final with 60.54 mtrs throw ... In Women's 400m Final Mandeep Kaur clocked 52.99 to finished on 4th and Manjeet Kaur clocked 53.27 to finished on 5th.

In Women's hockey India lost 1-2 against Chinese team ... So now they will face Japan in Bronze medal match.

Disappointing day in wrestling as in Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg category Manoj Kumar lost bronze medal match against Kyrgyzstan wrestler Janarbekand Kenjeev and Sanjay lost in first round of Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg.

In women volleyball Indian side take another one-sided defeat in hands of Chinese Taipei, 12-25 12-25 12-25.

Tennis - Men's Doubles
Gold - Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND)
Silver - Zhe Li (CHN)/ Maoxin Gong (CHN)
Bronze - Jae Cho-Soong (KOR)/ Hyun Joon Kim (KOR) and Hsin-Han Lee ()TPE)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE)

Tennis - Mixed Doubles
Gold - Yung Jan Chan (TPE)/ Tsung Hua Yang (TPE)
Silver - Sania Mirza (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)
Bronze - Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Yurika Sema (JPN) and Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)/ Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)

Archery - Men's Team
Gold - South Korea
Silver - China
Bronze - India

Tennis News
At ATP World TOur Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group A
Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER) 63 75
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 36 67(3)

Disappointing start for Lee and Lukas, who lost in straight sets against lower ranked Polish team ... With this loss their chances of entering semis from Group A r reduced.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

What a day for India ... We won 3 Gold, a Silver and 5 Bronze medals ... India moved to 8th position with 5 Gold, 11 Silver and 17 Bronze medals.

On first day of track and field India got a flying start wining 2 Golds and 1 Silver in long distance ... In Women's 3000m Steeplechase Sudha Singh gave unexpected result to won Gold medal ... She managed to hold Chinese challenge in the end to won it ... Before that Preeja Sreedharan showed her dominance in 10,000 mtrs ... She became first Indian athelete run below 32 mins ... Kavita Raut also run amazingly to came a second behind one second ... So Gold and Silver for Indians in Womens's 10,000M.

So at last our shooters managed to win Gold medal ... In Men's Double Trap Ronjan Sodhi won Gold and Indian team managed to win Bronze.

In Archery recurve women team event in dramatic event Indian women declared winner against Chinese Taipei team in Bronze medal match, 218-217 ... This is our first women archery medal in Asian games ... In semis India played very close match against WR #1 South Korean team ... After completion of 24 shots both teams were locked at 221-all ... But in 3 extra shots Korean women scored 28 pts and Indians managed only 26 ... Before this Indian women defeated North Korean 214-202 in quarters and defeated Vietnam team 225-152.

In tennis womens singles semis Sania lost in 3sets against 3rd seed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova, 76(7) 36 46 ... So with that Sania guarnteed with Bronze medal ... Somdev moved in to mens singles semis with comfortable win over Chinese player Ze Zhang 64 64 ... Karan gave tough fight to top-seed Denis Istomin before losing 26 64 57 ... In semis Somdev is facing Japanese 4th seed Tatsuma Ito ... In mixed doubles Sania Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan scored another hard fought victory over top seed Thai pair Tamarine Tanasugarn and Sanchai Ratiwatana in STB to moved into the fnal, 63 67(3) 10-5 ... In the final they r facing second seed Chinese Taipei pair of Yung Jan Chan and Tsung Hua Yng ... In mens doubles Sanam and Somdev scored straight sets vitory over Korean pair Cho-Soong and H-Kim 63 75 to moved into the final ... In final they r having tough challenge of local pair of 2nd seed Zhe Li and Maoxin Gong.

In boxing Preeti Beniwal became first Indian woman to won bout in women boxing ... She defeated Mongolian Suvd Erdene Oyungerel 8-2 in Women's 57-60kg ... In Men's 60kg young Vikas Krishan scored another impressive win over experienced Korean Chol Song Kim 4-2 to moved into semis ... In semis he is facing another young boxer from Uzbek's Hurshid Tojibaev ... In Super Heavyweight Men's 91kg Manpreet Singh had tough match against local Chinese boxer Maimaiti Zaifula ... He won this close quarter final 6-4 and in semis he will face Tajikistan Jakhon Qurbonov, who won his one sideded quarter-final against Turkmenistan boxer (referee stopped bout when he was 24-2 leading in first round).

Indian men's hockey team defeated Japan in close match, 3-2, with help from 2 goals from Sandeep Singh ... This win helped them to qualify for semi-final with topping the group B ... India will face Malaysia in first semi-final and Pakistan will face South Korea in other semi-final.

Indian men chess tem lost their fourth round match against Chinese team 1.5-2.5 ... GM Gopal G N lost against GM Ni Hua ... Indian women team won their fourth round match against Vietnamese team 1.5-2.5 ... Tania Sachdev scored important win against Pham Le Thao Nguyen.

In squash team event in pool stage India started with comfortable win over Qatar 3-0.

In disappointing result Indian volleyball men team lost easily against Thailand 0-3, 20-25 23-25 22-25, in quarter-final ... Indian women team again easily lost in group stage aginst Kazakhstan 0-3, 18-25 9-25 10-25.

Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase
Gold - Sudha Singh (IND) 9:55.67s PB
Silver - Yuan Jin (CHN) 9:55.71s
Bronze - Minori Hayakari (JPN) 10:01.25s

Athletics - Women's 10,000m final
Gold - Preeja Sreedharan (IND) 31:50:47 PB (NR)
Silver - Kavita Raut (IND) 31:51.44 PB
Bronze - Shitaya Eshete Habtegebrel (BAH) 31:53:27 PB

Shooting - Men's Double Trap Final
Gold - Ronjan Sodhi (IND) 186
Silver - Shaikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum (UAE)
Bronze - Hamad Ali Al Marri (QAT) 182

Shooting - Men's Double Trap Team
Gold - China 414
Silver - Kuwait 407
Bronze - India 403

Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg
Gold - Omid Noroozi (IRI)
Silver - Jihyun Jung (KOR)
Bronze - Ravinder Singh (IND) and Ryutaro Matsumoto (JPN)

Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg
Gold - Saeid Abdvali (IRI)
Silver - Darkhan Bayakhmetov (KAZ)
Bronze - Sunilkumar Rana (IND) and Tsutomu Fujimura (JPN)

Squash - Men's Individual
Gold - Mohamad Azlan Iskandar (MAS)
Silver - Aamir Atlas Khan (PAK)
Bronze - Saurav Ghosal (IND) and Beng Hee Ong (MAS)

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

In golf on final day our golfers - Rashid Khan, Rahul Bajaj, Abhinav Lohan, Abhijit Singh Chadha - managed PAR score for Team India and that was enough to earned them Silver with 1 stoke ahead of Chinese Taipei ... In individual event Rashid Khan scored final PAR round and remained on -3 ... He remained tied for 4th position and 2 stokes behind Chinese Taipei player Chien Yao Hung.

In sailing Open Match Racing event Indian sailors - Balraj, Trunal Balkrishna Helegaonkar, Atool Sinha, Farokh Tarapore and Shekhar Singh Yadav - won Silver ... They lost final to Japan ... But hats off to Farokh Tarapore for Silver at age of 50 yrs and participating in his 8th Asian games in a row.

In snooker singles Aditya Mehta lost 1-4 against Hong Kong player Ka Chun Marco Fu in semis, 20-62 7-60 68-55 15-59 21-71 ... So another Bronze medal for India in snooker.

In squash Saurav Ghosal lost in semis against top-seed Malaysian Mohamad Azlan Iskandar 1-3, 5-11 11-6 5-11 10-12 ... So another Bronze for us and this time from Squash.

In tennis Sania scored another upset win this time over WR #58 and 2nd seed Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn 62 63 ... Very dominating win to moved into semis ... In semis Sania is facing 3rd seed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova ... Somdev scored comfortble win over Uzbek Vaja Uzakov, 61 61, to moved into quarte final ... He will face local 6th seed Ze Zhang ... Karan also moved into semis scoring dominating win over Chinese Taipei's Ti Chen, 60 64 ... In quarter final he is having tough match against top-seed Uzbek Denis Istomin ... In doubles 6th seed Somi and Sanam scored comfortable win over local pair Zhang and Bai 62 64 to moved into semis ... In mixed doubles 6th seed pair of Sania Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan defeated 4th seed Chinese Taipei pair Chia Jung Chuang and Chu-Huan Yi in comeback victory ... They scored 26 64 10-4 win to moved into semis ... In semis they r facing top-seed Thai pair Tamarine Tanasugarn and Sanchai Ratiwatana

In mens volleyball quarter finl group stage India scored very dominting win ove Qatar and almost sure of finished on 2nd position in Group F ... India scored comfortble 3-0 win, 25-15 25-13 25-20.

In hockey group match India scored important win over Pakistan 3-2 ... Match was very fast paced ... Both teams were attacking from the start ... We scored first goal on PC through Sandeep Singh but Pakistan scored immediately in 4th minute through field goal from Rehan Butt ... Then Dharamvir Singh scored good field goal to gave us lead 2-1 at half-time ... In second half Pakistan take advantage of poor defending when they scored goal through Shakeel Abbasi ... But our forwards earned another penalty corner which Sandeep Singh scored ... In end our team well defended to keep advantage.

In boxing Men's 75kg Vijender Singh scored very good win over South Korean boxer Deokjin Cho 13-2 ... Vijender need to learn avoid penalty, in this match also he gave his opponent 2 points after 3 warnings of holding ... In semis Vijener is playing against Iranian boxer Mohammad Sattarpour ... In Men's 52kg category Suranjoy Singh Mayengbam defeated Uzbek Shahriyor Isakov in closely fought bout, 4-2, to moved into semis ... There he will face big challenge from local player Yong Change ... In Mens 46-49kg category Amandeep Singh scored thumping win over Pakistani 11-0 to moved in to quarters ... In quarter final he will face Philipino boxer Victorio Iii Saludar ... But in Men's 69kg Dilbag Singh lost one-sidedly against Turkmenistan boxer Omar Mamedshayev 8-0 in round 16.

In Mens chess team event India defeated Kazakhstan 2.5-1.5 with win from GM Gopal G N against higher ranked GM Vladimirov Yevgeniy ... With this win Indian team remained on top place with 10 pts, now 1.5 pts ahead of Chinese and Iranian teams.

In Womens chess team event India hold China to 2.0-2.0 draw ... They slipped to 4th position with 8 pts, 1.5 pts behind leader Vietnam team.

In womens hockey Indian team defeated Kazakhstan 6-0 with hattrick from Rani.

Indian women volleyball team lost easily against Japanese tem 25-23 25-16 25-17.

Golf - Men's Team
Gold - South Korea -22
Silver - India +10
Bronze - Chinese Taipei +11

Sailing - Open Match Racing
Gold - Japan
Silver - India
Bronze - Korea

Billiards - Men's Snooker Singles
Gold - Ka Chun Marco Fu (HKG)
Silver - Junhui Ding (CHN)
Bronze - Aditya Mehta (IND) and Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA)